Thor Halvorssen

Thor Halvorssen is president and CEO of the Human Rights Foundation. He is Venezuelan.

"A lifelong civil liberties advocate and film producer, Mr. Halvorssen is President of the Human Rights Foundation. Mr. Halvorssen was the first Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a free speech group he headed from its founding in 1999 until he stepped down in 2004 to create HRF. Mr. Halvorssen is the founder of the Moving Picture Institute and the producer of several feature films and documentaries that focus on human freedom including Freedom's Fury (executive produced with Quentin Tarantino and Lucy Liu), Indoctrinate U, and Hammer & Tickle (2006 winner of the Zurich Film Festival). He is a contributing author to several books about freedom. Halvorssen graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with concurrent undergraduate and graduate degrees in history." 

See also Thor Halvorssen Mendoza for a fuller biography.